Typodarium 2010 – Call For Entries

At the end of 2008 the Hermann Schmidt Verlag Mainz published the Typodarium by MAGMA Branddesign and ruddigkeit corporate ideas. It's a calendar made of 365 sheets of which each one is set in a different typeface. The Typodarium 2009 includes type designers and founders like 2Rebels, Cake Type, Christian Schwartz (thanks again for inviting us to your studio last September!), ds Type, Font Bureau, FontFarm, FontFont, Lazydogs, Mark Simonson, Peter Brugger, TypeOff, Typonauten, Verena Gerlach and many more. Unfortunately it was sold out within six weeks! Many type fans had to ease their frustration with the Typodarium widget for the iPhone.

The great success of the first Typodarium encouraged the publishers to do another one for 2010. Of course this means that there now are another 365 sheets to fill. So they announced an open call today. Any type designer or labeller is invited to contribute to the project. Register till March 27th, reserve your up to three favourite dates of the calendar and submit your fonts. Note: all submitted fonts have to be available for anyone to purchase. Go to www.typodarium.de for more information.

P.S.: When I bought my beloved «Lesetypo» three weeks ago at the «Domus-Haus», a book store which offers only literature on architecture and design here in Basel, I saw there six Typodaria left and still waiting for a new home! ;)